2020 presidential election
It's A Denial-Filled Sunday Show Rundown!
We watch the Sunday shows so you never have to.
December 14, 2020 02:16 PM
MAGA chuds, racists, transphobes and general scumbags are having a really tough time since Election Day. Just this weekend alone, delusional die-hard idiots were in Washington DC to once again cry about an election they lost, threaten to secede and start a new Civil War, and wear kilts to show their unwashed asses as they tore Black Lives Matter banners from historical black churches.
You know, "patriot" shit.
Exemplifying their state of denial was Republican House Minority Whip Steve Scalise. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Scalise still wouldn't call Joe Biden the President-elect:
Steve Scalise, who supported Trump's effort to disenfranchise millions of Biden voters for no good reason, won't co… https://t.co/0FBMfKD5B0— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)1607872337.0
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Scalise patted Republicans on the back because they've "allowed" Biden to go through a transition, while still denying that Biden will be the President come January 20, after he cosigned that the fascist clown lawsuit from the Texas attorney general, which the Supreme Court unceremoniously threw out Friday. Republicans have been acting like <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/newt-gingrich-chastises-georgia-secretary-of-state-for-letting-people-vote?draft=1" target="_self">undemocratic</a>, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/kelly-loefflers-racist-senate-campaign-attracts-shocking-number-of-racists?draft=1" target="_self">racist-coddling</a>, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/democrats-need-to-start-treating-republicans-like-the-gangsters-they-are?draft=1" target="_self">wannabe gangsters</a> for decades now, but they're doing it really loudly now.</p><p>It's a reality we have to face, which is why sadly I have to include incoming White House senior advisor and current Democratic congressman Cedric Richmond in this rundown. Appearing on CBS's "Face The Nation," Richmond kinda hinted that some Democrats might not get how dangerous and uncompromising Republicans are now.</p>
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<p><br></p><blockquote><strong>MARGARET BRENNAN</strong>: Okay. You, in your new role in the Biden administration, have described it as also being a conduit in some ways for outreach to Republicans. Two thirds of the Republican conference, including your friend, Congressman Steve Scalise, have supported this failed effort by-- by Texas to get the Supreme Court to try to overturn the results. And he says he still supports the President's attempts to do so. If-- if two thirds of the Republican conference doesn't recognize Joe Biden's victory as the president-elect, how can you do business with them? <br><br><strong>RICHMOND</strong>: They recognize Joe Biden's victory. All of America recognizes Joe Biden's victory. This is just a small portion of the Republican conference that are appeasing and patronizing the President on his way out because they are scared of his Twitter power and other things.</blockquote><p>Sixty-five percent of the House Republican Caucus is not a "small portion," Rep. Richmond. It's substantial enough that the obstructionism that President Obama faced might look like child's play compared to the next four years. The Biden Administration must recognize this change in the politics and Republicans in general or they'll be doomed to repeat the same mistakes we lived through before President Obama realized there was no compromising with Mitch McConnell and his ilk.</p><p>Also, stop allowing Republicans to be scumbags in public, while giving them credit for what they say in secret:</p><blockquote><strong>RICHMOND</strong>: I talk to Republican members of Congress all the time, and they say one thing privately, they say another thing publicly. But the one thing I will tell you is they realize he lost this election.</blockquote><p>Republicans want to simultaneously appease their base while using these whispered statements privately to give themselves both legitimacy and plausible deniability if confronted. We need to hold them accountable for what they say or do publicly, not privately. It doesn't matter if Republicans privately hate Trump or recognize Biden's victory if publicly they are attempting a coup to continue the presidency of a guy whose pandemic response failure has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.</p><p>We need to assess the threat Republicans pose and deal with the politics as they are now, not how we wish or how they used to be. <span></span>We'll conclude with this clip of Jake Tapper "thanking" Donald Trump for making Republicans for put their cowardice on record:<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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<strong>TAPPER</strong>: President Trump made House Republicans go on the record. He made them stand and be counted and 126 of them, including Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican Whip Steve Scalise, they actually signed their names to this, this unconservative, un-Democratic, un-American mendacious joke of a lawsuit that would disenfranchise millions of their fellow Americans.
These House Republicans raised their hands. They said, sign me up. The hope that most Republicans in the House were better than this, that has been destroyed.
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I don't think you needed more proof that Republicans were not "better than this," Jake Tapper, but better late than never.
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Feminininism
New York Post Now Doxxing Random Cam Girls For No Reason
Their article reads like an incel revenge fantasy.
December 14, 2020 12:54 PM
In this economy, with the pandemic leading to a whole lot of people losing their jobs, many Americans have turned to making some extra cash on OnlyFans. Yes, there are some personal trainers and chefs doing their thing on the site, but most of its 450,000+ content creators are selling sexy pictures or videos of themselves. And not all of them want people they know in real life to know about that.
This weekend, for reasons it is difficult to even begin to comprehend, Dean Balsamini and Susan Edelman of the New York Post decided to write an article outing a paramedic's OnlyFans side hustle. The woman, whom we will refer only to by her first name, "Lauren," because we are not monsters, had agreed to speak to the Post on the condition of anonymity. Instead, not only did they reveal her name, they contacted her place of work "multiple" times and also asked a male "veteran FDNY paramedic" for his take on the situation.
The article, titled "NYC medic helped 'make ends meet' with racy OnlyFans side gig," features a side-by-side comparison of a picture of Lauren in real life, in her paramedic uniform, next to one of her OnlyFans pictures. It included several quotes from Lauren about why she chose to do both kinds of work, information about how she had initially gone to New York to pursue a career in musical theater, how little paramedics get paid and her family's financial situation.
<p>"At the end of the day, it doesn't affect how I treat people. What I do in my free time is my business. It has no effect on how I care for my patients. I know when I'm working, I'm a paramedic. I think I'm pretty good at my job," she told the reporters. </p><p>Now, if one were so generous, they <em>might</em> think the Post's reporters were trying to tell a compelling and human story about how one woman is surviving the pandemic. A woman whose job it is to save lives. Except, if you read the article in question, it's clear the primarily concern here is shaming this woman and ruining her life for no particular reason.</p><p>Were this meant to be a nice story, it is unlikely it would have included this description of her OnlyFans account:</p><blockquote>A subscriber to [Lauren's] site found 32 posts on Nov. 25, including a photo showing her topless while posing with a sex toy, and videos in which she gyrates in a red bra and panties while The Weeknd's hit tune "Shameless" blares.</blockquote><p>Like, what would be the reason to "investigate" what her pictures and videos were, unless the goal were to somehow turn this into a scandal? In fact, the end of the article makes very clear this was the intention of the article. Why the hell else would they have contacted her job to ask for comment otherwise, or include the opinion of another random paramedic to chastise her?</p><blockquote>After [Lauren] first spoke to The Post, she deleted at least seven OnlyFans posts, including an offer to watch a "16 sec shower" video for $10. After Nov. 27, she locked her Twitter and Instagram accounts, and omitted the reference to OnlyFans in her Twitter profile. As of Friday, all her OnlyFans posts were deleted.<br><br>"I know SeniorCare would deem this 'inappropriate' so I took it down in the hopes that I won't lose my job in the middle of a pandemic and three weeks before Christrmas," [Lauren] texted. She said SeniorCare had asked to meet with her.<br><br>A veteran FDNY paramedic agreed that EMT pay is paltry, but blasted 'Lauren's] choice of a side career.<br><br>"Other EMTs and paramedics make more money by pulling extra shifts, instead of pulling off their clothes," he said.<br><br>On SeniorCare's website, the descriptions of all jobs forbid "inappropriate conduct, on and off duty." The requirements include: <strong>"</strong>Adheres to standards of personal ethics, on and off duty, which reflect credit upon the profession."<br><br>SeniorCare representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment.</blockquote><p>Were people actually supposed to be outraged by this? Like "Ugh! How dare she! Paramedics making minimum wage must be held to certain Puritanical standards!" or something? Why on earth would the <em>Post</em> be so invested in seeing this woman lose her job over something like this? What woman hurt Dean Balsamini? </p><p>I would just like to point out that Balsamini, while <em>highly</em> judgy about paramedic boobs, is perfectly capable of writing an article full of pathos. For people wearing <a href="https://nypost.com/2017/03/18/i-survived-wearing-a-make-america-great-again-hat-in-nyc/" target="_blank">"Make America Great Again"</a> hats.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Quite frankly, this whole thing reads <em>exactly</em> like one of the "revenge on women for being attractive and not wanting to date me" fantasies one might see in the incel forums. Certain men have no small amount of anger toward beautiful women.</p><p>Since the article was published, a friend of Lauren's has <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lauren-fight-for-her-livelihood" target="_blank">started a GoFundMe</a> on her behalf. It explains the situation Lauren is now looking at because Dean Balsamini decided to ruin her life:</p><blockquote>Lauren is a paramedic, working on the front lines in one of the hardest hit areas of the country making little money. In order to support herself during the pandemic as well as her family, Lauren turned to sex work. Recently Lauren was contacted by a national newspaper, Lauren asked to please remain anonymous and not be named. The newspaper and journalist (male) decided against honoring her request instead quoting her and misquoting her making her appear flippant and uncaring. In reality Lauren is now at risk of loosing[sic] her job, loosing her ability to help support her family, her father is extremely ill and Lauren has no where to turn.</blockquote><p>In an update, Lauren wrote: </p><blockquote>I want to start off by thanking you all so much for standing up for me and fighting. I have read all your comments and messages and I'm feeling very overwhelmed with love and gratitude. Let me also say that I truly believe I do not HAVE to explain myself, but I want to. I know in my heart that I did nothing wrong, but it really helps to be reminded that I do not deserve to be treated like this or spoken about this way. All my life, I have been sexualized and treated as a sex object, no matter what I do or say. I sold pictures of myself on the internet for extra money because it's easy. I didn't pick up extra shifts because I cannot work 40+ hour weeks and maintain my mental health. I did not ask my parents for help because I'm adult and wanted to make my own money. I never once spoke of my pictures at work or used my job as a paramedic to solicit subscribers. <br><br>I know I did nothing wrong and I have nothing to be ashamed of. Most of the quotes in that article are me defending myself to this reporter. He did not include that I begged him to remain anonymous (which was never agreed to) and that I told him my safety and job were going to be at risk if he posted this article. He truly did not care. He went on to call my employer and my mother. As some of you may know, I've been home with my family in WV following my father going into cardiac arrest last week. I have not been able to speak with my employer because of this and I still do not know what they are going to do. As of right now, I do still have a job but I will probably find out tomorrow if I don't.</blockquote><p>The fact that she would even think for a second that she did anything wrong is absolutely heartbreaking, ss is the fact that she could lose her job over this. If anyone should be losing their job here, it's Dean Balsamini and Susan Edelman for doing this to her. Also that one "veteran FDNY paramedic," who should learn to mind his own damn business. </p><p>[<a href="https://archive.is/wQXYF" target="_blank">NYPost (archived)</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><br><p></p><p><strong>Wonkette is independent and fully funded by readers like you. Click below to tip us!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Right Wing Extremism
A Cavalcade Of Cowards! Your Sunday Show Rundown
Surprise, they were all GOP cowards.
December 07, 2020 03:46 PM
After Donald Trump made an appearance in Georgia on Saturday night to whine about faux grievances, barely giving the uncharismatic senators GOP he was there to stump for any time to awkwardly shower him with praise ...
Loeffler can barely squeeze tepid applause out of the crowd. Perdue then starts talking but is drown out by "fight… https://t.co/PuoXnQCtJI— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)1607218195.0
… it was time for the cavalcade of Republican cowards to come to the Sunday shows.
There is such a wide spectrum of cowardice within the Republican party. There the "good Republicans" who still voted/will vote for Republicans despite being villainized by their own party. Then there's the cowardice of refusing to accept you will forever be remembered as the last mouthpiece of Donald Trump. For instance, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany desperately begging Georgia GOP Governor Brian Kemp to do crimes to appease Trump.
Dead-ender Kayleigh McEnany yells at GA Gov. Kemp on Fox News: "You have the power to call in a special legislative… https://t.co/NsjTTU9tIz— The Recount (@The Recount)1607267992.0
<p>Of course in the same interview, McEnany accidentally admitted Kamala Harris would be the tiebreaking vote in the Senate should the two Democrats win the runoffs in Georgia, which means she admitted Harris would be Vice President.<br></p><p>
Over on Maria Bartiromo's special den of propaganda called "Sunday Morning Futures," she had Director of National Intelligence John
<del>Ratfuck</del> Ratcliffe.
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Three days, Ratcliffe told CBS News that no foreign government was able to mess with the election:
</p><div id="468df" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="eaa40122584f2e8b6ceb3bc3158fba55"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1334664229434093572" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">#OriginalReporting No intelligence so far has shown that a foreign adversary or criminal group had the ability to c… https://t.co/hcFmjuC22g</div> — Catherine Herridge (@Catherine Herridge)<a href="https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/statuses/1334664229434093572">1607043723.0</a></blockquote></div><p>
But once Ratcliffe was with Bartiromo, He <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/donald-trump-loss-john-ratcliffe-joe-biden-election-b1767134.html" target="_blank">showed</a> the same level of "integrity" and "courage" he exhibited during Trump's impeachment.
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</p><blockquote>"Well, these election issues, we'll see who's in what seats and whether there is a Biden administration," said [...] Ratcliffe, after [...] Bartiromo asked what the official thought of Mr Biden's cabinet picks and their approach to China.<br></blockquote><p>
Johnny, the Biden Administration begins on January 20th, 2021, and you will be out of a job. Maybe you can be hired for party events (when we can have parties again) to be a dollar store knockoff of the
<a href="https://www.tbs.com/shows/american-dad" target="_blank">main character of "American Dad."</a>
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GOP Senator Mike Braun of Indiana displayed his own kind of cowardice on ABC's "This Week." </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>George Stephanopoulos explained that enough states had been certified to give Joe Biden enough electors to be the President-elect of the United States. Stephanopoulos then asked the obvious (and easy) follow-up question:</p><blockquote><strong>STEPHANOPOULOS</strong>: So do you now accept that he's president-elect?</blockquote><p>But the senator who<a href="https://youtu.be/-pfa0WQFm9A" target="_blank"> once took heat from Tucker Carlson</a> for saying Black Lives Matter and calling for an end to qualified immunity seems to have learned since then to be a good little spreader of false information.</p><blockquote><strong>BRAUN</strong>: Well, we've got a process that I think we've been going through since the election, and it's going to play itself out. I think that we've got a threshold coming on December 14th that -- when the Electoral College meets. [...] What is at play is, when you look at what was talked about earlier with the secretary of state in Georgia, I think when you talk -- reflexively dismiss that maybe nothing has happened at all, versus the other side of the spectrum, systemic fraud, widespread, it's a wide gulf.[...] <br><br><strong>STEPHANOPOULOS</strong>: But, sir, I think it's pretty hard to argue that it's been reflexively dismissed. What you've had since the election is certification processes in every states. Those include audits and in many cases recounts. Those certifications have been done in many states led by Republican governors, like Arizona and Georgia.[...] So the process has played out, hasn't it? And there's no evidence of widespread fraud. Why can't you accept the results?</blockquote><p>But when Braun couldn't answer why he couldn't accept reality, Stephanopoulos once again corrected him.</p><blockquote><strong>BRAUN</strong>: I think it's easy to say it's played out because that might be the most convenient thing to say, but let's look at what the secretary of state did not mention in Georgia, you know, the video where, after a counting place closed, you see boxes of ballots coming out from underneath the table. I know that's, kind of, a graphic example, but... <br><br><strong>STEPHANOPOULOS</strong>: Well, I have to stop you right there. No, that -- it wasn't mentioned because it didn't show anything improper. He's spoken to that this week. They -- that was exactly the proper process for counting the ballots. There wasn't anything wrong shown in that video at all. So you're just throwing out a claim out there that...that doesn't prove what you're saying. <br><br><strong>BRAUN</strong>: I think, unless you scrutinize something like that further -- or what about, like, say, Wisconsin, where... <br><br><strong>STEPHANOPOULOS</strong>: It was scrutinized.</blockquote><p>Stephanopoulos was not the only one who apparently decided to journalism that morning, as Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" pushed back on the wormy way HHS Secretary Alex Azar refused to hold Trump responsible for the surge in coronavirus cases and refused to give the proper respect to the President-elect of the United States.</p><div id="bf34b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5bb31a6d84d6bb8b5f342dc8746e8151"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1335593735443329031" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Chris Wallace corrected Azar for referring to Biden as "vice president" instead of "president-elect." https://t.co/eEpfi2RDYv</div> — Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/statuses/1335593735443329031">1607265335.0</a></blockquote></div><p>That's enough, that's enough cowards.</p><p>Have a nice week!</p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like you! If you love Wonkette, fund Wonkette!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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It's The Schrödinger's Election Fraud Theory Of Sunday Show GOP Idiots!
Time for the thing we do every Monday!
November 30, 2020 10:47 AM
Donald Trump was in horrible mood on Sunday, like he is most days now after a devastating loss to President-elect Joe Biden, and also the days before that. He whined and rambled to Fox News's very own North Korean-like propaganda "news anchor" Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures." But his inability to accept his loss and his need for fatalistic loyalty are causing an interesting twist of logic for Republicans looking to win two very critical Senate seats in my current home BLUE state of Georgia. It's basically Schrödinger's Election Fraud Theory.
On CNN's "State Of The Union," host Dana Bash tried to get GOP Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri just to admit Biden won:
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BASH: Do you accept the fact that Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States?
BLUNT: Well, we are certainly moving forward as if that what is going to happen on January the 20th. […] But the president wants to see this process play out. The president-elect technically has to be elected president by the electors. That happens in the middle of December. And then on January the 6th [... blah blah blah ... ] But we are working with the Biden administration, likely administration, on both the transition and the inauguration as if we are moving forward.
Blunt basically is hedging for the future when this CNN footage will be used against him to show he was one of many spineless Republicans shamefully catering to a bankrupt (morally and financially) one-term president and reality TV "star."
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Bash, noticing that Blunt said "Biden administration" like he said
<a href="https://youtu.be/Co_MeAON3ew" target="_blank">the secret word</a>, tried to pin down Blunt on his acceptance or denial of Biden's victory.
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<strong>BASH</strong>: Likely administration. So, is it safe to say that you do consider Joe Biden the president-elect?
<br><br><strong>BLUNT</strong>: Well, the president-elect will be the president-elect when the electors vote for him. There is no official job president-elect.
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While technically true, Blunt and many Republicans are being quite literal about the title of "president-elect" for the first time ever. It's like their new hot version of "War Of Northern Aggression"/"The South Shall Rise Again" delusion/revisionism. Blunt even admitted he's aware of this:
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<strong>BLUNT</strong>: Part of the problem we have had between the media and the Congress, particularly Republicans in the Congress, the last four years is there's always this straw man that is set up. And I think I'm on a list of -- that you're keeping at your network of Republican senators who haven't yet acknowledged that there's a president-elect, as if that's a significant thing.
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Lampshading your cowardice does not make it braver, Roy. Bash helpfully pointed that out while recapping what Republicans are currently doing.
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<strong>BASH</strong>: But the issue, Senator [...] is that it's not just a title. It's that the current president has lost -- and his allies have lost or withdrawn more than 30 lawsuits since Election Day. Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia have certified the votes.
And, maybe even more importantly, the president is undermining the democratic process by talking about fraud that nobody can find, even judges who look at cases that come before them say is not happening.
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Bash continued to push Blunt to just admit that Trump lost, while he danced around the question like he was auditioning for a remake of <em>The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas</em>.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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He also tried to reassure Georgia Republican voters that THEIR election system is secure, presumably out of fear that the GOP's own fearmongering will cause them to stay home.<br>
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<strong>BLUNT</strong>: I do hope that voters, particularly Republican voters, turn out and vote in Georgia. And, again, the Georgia system was changed so that there was a level of security that Georgia didn't have four years ago. […] So, I'm hoping voters vote. And the president says he is going to Georgia next Saturday, so he must be thinking that voters need to vote as well.
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Not sure how much help Trump bringing his <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/health/covid-trump-rallies-counties-cases/index.html" target="_blank">Covid superspreader events</a> to Georgia is gonna be while he's calling the voting machines themselves rigged or calling Governor Brian Kemp a loser he shouldn't have endorsed, Roy.
</p><div id="7759c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="886fb97ac358d1a3925eabb43390e860"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1333070943644770308" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">"I'm ashamed that I endorsed him" -- Trump disses Brian Kemp for not doing more to help him steal the election in G… https://t.co/tIKlwe2zi8</div> — Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/statuses/1333070943644770308">1606663854.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Over on NBC's "Meet The Press," full-time conservative radio douche and part-time NBC contributor Hugh Hewitt attempted the same pretzel twisting to get Georgia voters to ignore all the "fraud" or "broken voting machines" and go ahead and vote for <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9x4d/another-georgia-gop-senator-david-perdue-was-reportedly-investigated-for-insider-trading" target="_blank">I AM NOT A CROOK Senators David Purdue and Kelly Loeffler.</a></p>
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<p><br></p><blockquote> <strong>HEWITT</strong>: Oh, every day I talk to people who believe that there's massive fraud in Georgia. And I tell them no, and they've got to get out and vote for David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who I support. But I think what's going on is an undervaluation of the voters' intelligence again. They're very sophisticated.</blockquote><p>Oh yes, "very sophisticated," Hugh. I mean, just witness the cogent arguments and logic exemplified by this Newsmax contributor as she tells the first Black President to "sit down" while making transphobic remarks:</p><div id="3f7a7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c902ca317318f603419b9f0958513684"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1332378423164100610" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Hey @BarackObama sit your ass down ! https://t.co/2uQlYqOTzL</div> — Tina40 (@Tina40)<a href="https://twitter.com/RealTina40/statuses/1332378423164100610">1606498745.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Georgia will be a test both of Democrats' ability to follow through after Biden's decisive win, and of Republicans' fear that kowtowing to Trump's ego might cost them the Senate. Even RNC Chair Ronna <del>Romney</del> McDaniel was trying to thread this needle two days ago.<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Let's repudiate these cynical and craven scumbags by electing Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock.</p><p>Have a week!<br></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like you! If you love Wonkette, FUND US!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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